Social Policy & Administration

Social Policy & Administration Special Issue on Evaluation and Evidence in Social Policy, due in 2013.
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Social Policy & Administration - the Early Stage Career Researcher Prize

This prize acknowledges the best published paper by an Early Stage Career Researcher. The prize will be £500, plus a year's free subscription to Social Policy & Administration. For further information on the eligibility for the prize, and how to apply, please click here.

Our most recent winner is Karen Nielsen Breidhal, Aalborg University, with the paper
Does Active Labour Market Policy have an Impact on Social Marginalization?

SP&A are pleased to announce their first e-Special Issue Welfare and Governance.

This is the first E-issue of Social Policy & Administation. The idea is to look at a certain topic on which, over a number of years, a number of articles have been published and, by bringing them together, to show how a concept, idea or policy area has changed over the years or how, by looking at it from different perspectives and angles, one can shed new light on a topic. This is despite, naturally, the fact that some of the empirical data is not up to date.

Read the full e-Special Issue

This series is designed to stretch the boundaries of social policy debate by inviting a distinguished consultant editor, from a related discipline, to bring together an international range of contributors to comment on a theme of social policy concern. Now that notions of social policy are being redefined and reinterpreted in so many parts of the world, it is of vital importance for terms of reference to be enlarged and perspectives broadened in this way.

Recent books from the series include:
- Living in Dangerous Times: Fear, Insecurity, Risk and Social Policy by David Denney
- Reforming the Bismarckian Welfare Systems by Bruno Palier & Claude Martin

For further information on this series, please click here.